Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Steve Jordahl: Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to, Today's Issues. That's the name of this here show on the American Family Radio Network. We're live. It's live radio. So if we mess up, our careers are over.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Not when you're the ball.
>> Tim Wildmon: We have a seven second delay we can institute.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Is it that long? You gotta be quicker than that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Is it seven?
>> Tim Wildmon: I think Brandon is the 17.
>> Steve Jordahl: Are we keeping Ray for lunch? I just want to know.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You know, it's eight seconds, but I
>> Tim Wildmon: don't run it for our own show host. Right. Only. Only for callers. He expects professionalism from us here. So, welcome back everybody, to Today's Issues. Tim, Wesley and Ray. And what were you saying?
>> Steve Jordahl: I heard that we're interrupting Ray from lunch. I just thought he was.
>> Tim Wildmon: Are you watching the video of him eating or something?
>> Tim Wildmon: He's eating his food, you know, he
>> Tim Wildmon: knew we were going to talk some
>> Tim Wildmon: a five minute break and, and with two minutes to go, I ran into the kitchen and got turkey and two pieces. Turkey and two pieces of bread.
>> Steve Jordahl: There you go.
>> Tim Wildmon: Ray needed some energy for the last 25 minutes. The last. Yep. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Push across the finish line.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Steve Wildman says spiritual heritage tours are filling up
Hey, let me mention this before we jump back, what Steve brings to us here today as far as news. I wouldn't say it's the last call, but I'm just telling you these tours are filling up. And, we've got, some spiritual heritage tours coming up for to 2026, in June, we are going to Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. And we are also going to Washington D.C. and Mount Vernon. George Washington's Mount Vernon. So those are two separate trips. Williamsburg three days, Washington four days. And those are two separate trips. But we've come, we put them back to back on purpose because you can go to either one, you don't have to go to both. But we have a lot of folks who live around the country too far away from Washington D.C. or Williamsburg. And they say, hey, I'm gonna travel that far. I want to spend the week with you guys and just see it all. And so we had that, capability to pick you up at the airport on the bus and we go to Williamsburg and you're with us all week and we take care of you seven days. So if that's something you're interested in, we do that in June, we do that in September. And as I say, these tours are filling up. So, if you want information on those tours, go to TW. Excuse me. Wildmon group dot com. Wildmon M Group dot com W I L D M M O N group dot com. Also in the fall, in October, September.
When are you going to Boston this year? September. Last year was October
When are you going to Boston this year?
>> Wesley Wildmon: September. Last year was October.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so that's beautiful weather time. It really is in Boston. you and. You and Walker and Ed's going on that trip, too.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Ed is also Stephen McDowell. That's right. Steve McDowell. Walker, myself, Ed Vitagliano.
>> Tim Wildmon: Tim Barton from Wall Builders.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. And Tim Barton will be going to, Boston. We're going to. We. There's a whole bunch of stops we'll make, some of. With some of which will be the,
>> Tim Wildmon: The Freedom Trail.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep, the Freedom Trail. Plymouth Plantation. You want to do this for me?
>> Tim Wildmon: no, I. I don't want. I don't want to step over you m. Bother us trying to help you out.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I appreciate you doing this.
>> Tim Wildmon: It was. I was. I was. You can't help yourself. Once a dad, you're always a dad.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go ahead, son. Do it yourself.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Plymouth Rock. But we got to go to the Mayflower replica. We're also going to go to the Old House, Old South Meeting House, King's Chapel, Fennell hall, which. That was funny because Fennell Hall. We joked about that. It was pronounced three different ways even there.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: anyways, the Boston Massacre site, these are just some of the many, places. USS Constitution, Bunker Hill.
>> Tim Wildmon: Also going to Lexington and Concord. Concord, See where the Minutemen were.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's a. It's a. It's a fabulous.
>> Wesley Wildmon: So it's a fast pace. We hit these stops, and it's a Monday through Thursday.
>> Tim Wildmon: So here's what you need to do. that Boston trip is September 21 through 26. And you guys are probably two thirds full now.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We're two thirds full. Last year we filled up. We had to do a wait list. And then this year we're on pace to fill up in the next.
>> Tim Wildmon: you have to do a weight lift.
>> Wesley Wildmon: A wait list.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, a wait list. Okay, my bad.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Did you see how I did the Moon Pie earlier?
>> Tim Wildmon: I did.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That was for you.
>> Tim Wildmon: I did. Well, thank you.
>> Wesley Wildmon: For those that listened in the first.
>> Tim Wildmon: So, so if you want information on any of those tours, the Boston in September and. Or the D.C. and Williamsburg tours, go to the website W I L D M O N Group dot com. W I L D M M O N group dot com. And all the information's there, the itinerary, the cost, the dates, who this. Who. Who's the host are going to be. Because we got Steven McDowell, we got historians coming on this trip, these trips. So we don't just say, hey, look at that. Isn't that nice? We tell you about the people, places, and events that make the site significant. So. And we go into the stories of that.
If Ed's going, are you offering a hockey elective
All right, Steve, what do you got?
>> Steve Jordahl: I just got a question, though.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: To Wesley. If Ed's going, are you offering a hockey elective? Is that what's going to be happening in Boston?
>> Tim Wildmon: Ed was born and raised there.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Boston, that area and Nashville, NewSong Hampshire. So he did. Ed's going home.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. He did mention that. If he steps away for lunch and he's not with the group, that's what he may be doing. He did say that. But he probably will get fascinated during the free time on some hockey.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And free. And the free time also includes a chance to go to that North End, restaurant area where Paul Revere's home is. And, oh, there's like, 15, pick your choice, like 15 fabulous, authentic Italian restaurants. Yeah, I mean, where the, you know,
>> Wesley Wildmon: they wake up each morning and they make their own noodles.
>> Tim Wildmon: The North End, they're known for that.
Steve Martin pays tribute to first lady Melania Trump during UN Security Council meeting
Go ahead, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Before we get started on the news, can I just pay a little tribute to our first lady, Melania Trump?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Please do.
>> Steve Jordahl: She was asked to go to the United nations and host a Security Council meeting on behalf of the United States. And this is what that sounded like. Cut 19. Good afternoon. The 10, 113 meeting of the Security Council is called to order. She, has a little more depth that a lot of people want to give her credit for.
>> Tim Wildmon: is that serious?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: That was. That was Melania at the United nations hosting this. The united. The UN Security Council meeting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did you do anything beyond that?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. The whole meeting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, she's highly intelligent.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: She speaks, like, five languages.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I speak one hardly. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes I don't even know if I'm gonna make it with that one. but she speaks five languages, and, so. But when I first saw that, I thought, was this something ceremonial?
>> Steve Jordahl: No, she was there for the whole meeting.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, that's. That was her.
>> Tim Wildmon: Stayed for the whole meeting. Huh?
>> Wesley Wildmon: Did you get to hear clips of it or portions of it or.
>> Steve Jordahl: I have the whole thing. I found it on video, but I just grabbed the first couple minutes of it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. To let people know that she did that. That's good.
Supreme Court temporarily blocks California law requiring parental notification of transgender student
>> Tim Wildmon: Next story.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States cleared, the way for California schools to notify parents that their children that are attending public schools in California may be having some gender difficulties. so the justices. This is a lot of negatives, double, negatives here. So listen to this carefully and I'll explain it. The justices order. I'm reading from Newsweek. The justices order. Temporarily blocked a state law that barred school districts from adopting policies that required automatic parental notification when a student, changes their pronouns or genders. So the schools wanted to keep that from the parents. And the Supreme Court stepped in yesterday and said no, you may tell the parents that the, society was involved.
>> Tim Wildmon: Tell me if, you know if I'm wrong here, but I think the state of California passed a law.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: The legislature and Governor Newsom. I mean, you talk about some far left wackadoodles. That's who controls the California legislature. What they did last year, they voted a law in which said that schools, can hide from parents and should hide from parents if a kid is
>> Wesley Wildmon: just transitioning from boy to girl, a girl to boy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right. And they wanted, they wanted to keep that from the parents.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. And their argument was for the best interest of the child, this transitioning.
>> Tim Wildmon: And the, the, some, some of the, some of the people in the state of California said that's wrong. It's unacceptable. Parents have a right to know if their children, we're talking minors here, are wanting to change their bodies. Yeah. And, school should not be, forbidden from telling them about it. So the Supreme Court, thankfully ruled with common sense and said parents deserve to know. California can't deny parents the right to know. Right?
>> Steve Jordahl: That is exactly right.
>> Tim Wildmon: Now, they. Did they, did they come, to this as a conclusion or did they kick it back down to the lower court? Do you know?
>> Steve Jordahl: Temporary restraining order.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, this is not a final decision.
>> Steve Jordahl: It is not a final decision. Temporary restriction.
>> Tim Wildmon: But it's good news.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes. Until the next story.
Nearly one in seven Christian colleges have ties to Planned Parenthood, study finds
the, Students for Life of America has put out a study that finds that nearly one in seven Christian colleges in the United States have ties to Planned Parenthood.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, boy. I want names.
>> Steve Jordahl: Now I'd like to give them to you. But, in this particular, survey, they even excluded denominations who openly support abortion, like the Disciples of Christ and United, Church of Christ and everything. You don't even count those colleges. These are just Christian colleges for denominations who either don't take a Strong stand, but are against it. And they, found 114 institutions of more than one in seven Christian schools had some relationship with the abortion industry in general or the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, you can't. It's hard to tell anymore just because a church has a name on it or just because you say, well, that's a church. Some churches are going, wacky on their theology. And I say, wacky. That's a light where some of them are going heretical on there. So you can't always, quote, judge a book by its cover. You need to know what the church believes, not. Not necessarily what's on the sign outside. Right. Is that right?
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, look, if you see today a Methodist church, right, you don't know. You got to find out what kind of Methodist are we talking about.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right. Presbyterian. Same way.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what Presbyterians say. Lutheran. Exactly the same way. So, friends, don't just. And don't just look at the. At the title. Don't look at the size of the, building or the congregation, whether you like the way the past preaches. Find out what he is teaching and that. What the church actually believes.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's right.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm going to be looking in more of this. I didn't bring a list of the, offending schools, but I will tell you that in this article, they do give a couple schools that got A plus grades from Students for Life. In other words, M associate with that would be Benedictine College in Kansas, Liberty University in Virginia.
>> Tim Wildmon: They got good grades.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, yes, 100.
>> Tim Wildmon: By the students for Life. Students for Life.
>> Steve Jordahl: And the University of Mary in North Dakota.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay, so there's some good ones.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Next story, Steve.
Canadian man calls police after seeing daughter with him at coffee shop
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, Canada, is having some, oh, Canada issue. Oh, Canada.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, Canada.
>> Tim Wildmon: Canada.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right. Yes. So, oh, man. There's a guy named in Canada, named Jonathan Puddle. P U, D, D, L, E. Okay. And, he decided he wanted to take his daughter, his teenage daughter Emmy out to coffee. And so he went to an Ontario coffee shop, and they sat down and they had a good conversation. Drinking some coffee and talking about maybe college. I don't know what they were talking about, but just good stuff. And somebody, was looking and kind of got this in their head. If you see something, say something. And they thought, that's an older man with a younger girl. That can't be good. And they call the police. And they call the police. And the police come. They got an image taken from security camera. They shared it online. The, Guelph Police service, sent
>> Steve Jordahl: some officers and they questioned the dad. after questioning the puddles.
>> Wesley Wildmon: That's what I want to know the after.
>> Steve Jordahl: See, the intense family resemblance wasn't enough to put off the vigilante patron identified by TV as Logan. So this is the guy that turned him in. But the father's account. Logan followed the family to their van and asked Jonathan, can you explain how you're related to her? I said the police were called. I might be wrong about that. no, Grenadian cops, they questioned the dad after questioning the puddles. He says I was still iffy on it. That's when I decided to call in, just to be safe and sorry because I know it's a serious issue. So he called the cops on him. Guelph police pulled security camera footage and the puddle got a blast, a fury of text messages. But eventually they were cleared. But.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, as long as they're clear, that's good. I can, I can see how that would be frustrating if you're the dad and that's your daughter and you weren't doing anything wrong. But on the other hand, there's. With a lot of, sex trafficking going on and kidnapping that,
>> Steve Jordahl: It's a weird time, but I mean, sure. It just seems. This seems a little over the top to me. A little Karenish.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah. Well, the good news is he was cleared.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Nothing's worse than being detained wrongfully and having to go through a bunch of legal fees and all that just to prove your innocence.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's right.
There is human trafficking going on out there and. You know, there is,
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, well, if you see now this fella here is it that was the. The dad and the daughter.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: What do you know what kind of age difference there was between them?
>> Steve Jordahl: She's a teenage daughter, so I'm assuming he was in his 40s.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's, that's, that's. You see that every day. I mean, if you saw a guy in his 60s, could be a granddaughter.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's true. I'm just saying, that that would be more I. Eyebrow raising for somebody than say what you're talking about here. Just a. Ah, normal age gap. By normal, I'm talking 20, 25, 30 years. I don't know. You know, there is, There is human trafficking going on out there and.
>> Steve Jordahl: Do you think they go to a
>> Tim Wildmon: coffee shop though, people? No, I don't. I don't. So. Yeah, go ahead. Next.
>> Steve Jordahl: All right.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Some movies though, I wouldn't do that.
>> Tim Wildmon: But some people are really suspicious. You Know, go ahead.
Two people were in a hot air balloon when it struck a radio tower
>> Steve Jordahl: Can we talk about some drama at a thousand feet?
>> Tim Wildmon: I think we should do it.
>> Steve Jordahl: You ever been up in a hot air balloon, either one of you?
>> Wesley Wildmon: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm scared up in a way.
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm sorry. Hey, Ray, how you doing? Hey, sorry, man.
>> Tim Wildmon: Good.
>> Steve Jordahl: You're bit up in a hot air balloon, Ray.
>> Tim Wildmon: I have.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I have.
>> Tim Wildmon: It's a me go floating beautiful balloon.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, that's
>> Tim Wildmon: I got it, Steve. I got it. We got that.
>> Steve Jordahl: That is the fifth way. That was the fifth.
>> Tim Wildmon: That was a very popular song for baby boomers back in the. Probably the late 60s, early 70s, right?
>> Steve Jordahl: Beautiful.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Remember that one?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: I've been in hot air balloon.
>> Tim Wildmon: Anyway, am I hitting the notes team?
>> Steve Jordahl: We get a great.
>> Wesley Wildmon: We need to. I don't want to mess you up. So we'll. I'll make a note right here. We'll come back to raise a hot balloon experience. Because I got questions.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I want to. I want to find out about it. But there was a, bad story.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's the main thing I got.
>> Tim Wildmon: I got back down.
>> Steve Jordahl: So this. These two, people were up in this hot air balloon. And it was floating and it floated into a radio tower. Struck it at about a thousand feet. Got caught on the radio tower.
>> Tim Wildmon: In Longview, Texas.
>> Steve Jordahl: In Longview, Texas. And two people were swinging from this thing in the wind.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, man.
>> Steve Jordahl: And the police and the fire department and a whole bunch of volunteers and everybody came up team climbed that thing with ropes and blade them over and brought them down. Took hours to rescue.
>> Tim Wildmon: I saw this story last night, which
>> Wesley Wildmon: is why I haven't been on one, by the way.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hot air balloon.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Just kidding.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, if you watch this, you won't ever go on one, I'll tell you that. Right. this.
>> Tim Wildmon: They. They were hanging and swinging.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It just don't seem like you have much control over a hot air balloon once you're up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Like that's what they like about it.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Is that it? Okay.
>> Tim Wildmon: I'm just kidding. It is subject to weather, winds. it's not easily. Doesn't appear to me to be easily, you know, I mean you gotta. You gotta watch.
>> Wesley Wildmon: You can't back it up and turn it around. Right.
>> Tim Wildmon: You know, it's a balloon, go where the air goes. But there is some control of it, but not enough. Anyway, what I wanted to say is if you watch that video, I think it was a father. Was it a father? Son. Steve. In the hot air balloon.
>> Steve Jordahl: I do not know. I'm sorry.
>> Tim Wildmon: Somebody who knows him really yeah, maybe. Maybe. I'm serious. In Longview, Texas. So maybe we can get that balloonist, if he wants to relive it, telling us about it again. But I want to say it was a father son, but maybe I'm wrong about that, but. And I'm not sure how high up they were, but they were very high. A few hundred feet.
>> Steve Jordahl: I think they were 920ft off the ground.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, my word.
>> Tim Wildmon: So their hot air balloon hits the, It's a wonder. Didn't kill them. I mean, it's a miracle, quite honestly, that they, they weren't, you know, thrown to the ground or something like that, but they were rescued miraculously. M. And it was a miracle because those people, those rescuers. Can you imagine climbing up that far, 900ft and then realizing, well, you probably knew going up, but then going, how are we going to get these guys safely over to the tower? You know what I'm saying? So. But you can watch that whole thing.
Two hot air balloonists hit radio tower in Texas; first responders rescue them
It's on video on the, they
>> Steve Jordahl: have a drone that they flew up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. All you got to do is maybe. We got it on our. Do we have it on our Facebook page. Okay, if you go to, our Today's Issues Facebook page, we're going to post that video.
>> Steve Jordahl: First responders used multiple 300 foot ropes to safely remove the passenger from the hot air balloon. They lowered the shaken pair rope by rope until they were back on the ground.
>> Tim Wildmon: What I want to know is you can't prepare for something like that. You don't train for a hot air balloon. Hitting a radio tower. First thing I wondered was, is that one of AFR's radio towers? I was kind of worried about that, but it wasn't, it wasn't good. But, anyway, 900ft up, I think, I think the, I think our tallest tower is a thousand. I want to say. Oh, we, we have, we have a few towers that are a thousand feet tall. That's, that's way up in the sky right there for a tower. Yeah. so anyway, I know we have one on the Gulf coast, in Mississippi that's I think a thousand feet. And we, and we have to have extra secure. We, have to take some extra because of the potential for the hurricane knocking it down. Go ahead.
>> Steve Jordahl: I want to hear race, balloon story.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Years and years and many, many years ago. Something like a, something like a county fair where you pay a few dollars and you know, you, you go up and you come down some really know that it counts as, you know, being untethered and floating away. When you go up, you go up, and when you come down, you. It's very cool. You know, people go to France, and they pay a lot of money, and you can float across the French countryside. That's on my bucket list. Someday.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: not mine.
>> Tim Wildmon: well, it's, I know people who are into hot air, their balloon, and they. They love it, you know, So I guess it's. I can. And, you know, it's got its risk, but for the most part, it's a safe adventure.
>> Wesley Wildmon: It's a risk. Every day, dad.
>> Tim Wildmon: Every day you get up. You get up and stumble out of bed. You hope you make it to the shower, get the big toe. You could fall, trip, and hit your head on something. You don't know. You don't.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Well, I'm looking at the video now.
>> Tim Wildmon: From what y' all are just saying, that video. I got a panic attack looking at that video. It's up there of this. Do we put it up there? So if you go to our Today's Issues Facebook page, we put that video up there of, this, two men, hot air balloonists. Their balloon somehow hits the radio tower in Longview, Texas, and. And they're stuck. And then they're rescued.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And thankfully, looking at the video, when they hit. When they collided with it, with the radio tower. Radio tower that it hung on long, it didn't just pop the balloon and fall down to the ground, which would have been the worst case.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's what I'm saying. It's a miracle they didn't die.
>> Wesley Wildmon: They actually got wrapped up around it in order.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Wesley Wildmon: And of course, in doing so, it kept, it from falling. Aggression. So they dangled.
>> Tim Wildmon: Really. They did. Yeah, they did. Anyway, check that out again. be forewarned. you're gonna have. I had a panic attack when I watched the video before.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Warned.
>> Tim Wildmon: Be forewarned, people. All right, Ray, thank you very much for your contributions.
>> Tim Wildmon: You bet.
>> Tim Wildmon: Thank you, Steve.
Steve: Thank God those two men are alive
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Did I introduce you properly, Steve?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, sir.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think Steve Paisley. Jordo. Okay. Because you're rocking the Paisley shirt today, man.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, we got it.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's a loud one. okay. Wesley keeps watching the video over and over and over again.
>> Wesley Wildmon: I don't know if I'll get in
>> Tim Wildmon: another deer stand for a while after watching that. I'm telling you, that's like, wow. Thank God those two men are alive. And thank God these rescuers were able to have their composure.
>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, that's right.
>> Tim Wildmon: too. To, to do that.
>> Tim Wildmon: All right.
>> Tim Wildmon: folks, we hope you have a wonderful rest of your Tuesday afternoon. Keep listening to AFR and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
